[Dell Streak 7] grimesda@yahoo.com:
illdill,

I am having the same problem. I made the same stupid mistake everyone else did, but all of the "fixes" lost Wifi for me. So I made the same fatal error you did. Now, I am stuck at the dreaded Dell Logo.

I have searched the entire planet and so far, you are the only one that appears to have made even the slightest bit of progress.

Fastboot does not exist. There is no button combination that gets me there...and I have gotten there before. I have attempted to use the FAstboot tools and it can't find the device. Google USB Drivers are installed. Attempted the NVidea drivers and nada.

ADB finds the device. However, being an idiot, I lost the system files so I can't get into ADB Shell which would allow me to fix it. Here is what I have tried with ADB:

ADB Shell:

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -

ADB install DJSteve336.zip

file 'djsteve336.zip' does not contain AndroidManifest.xml

adb push boot_orig.img /sdcard

failed to copy 'boot_orig.img' to '/sdcard': Is a directory

adb push boot_orig.img /sdcard/boot.img

failed to copy 'boot_orig.img' to '/sdcard/boot.img': Read-only file system

adb Remount

remount succeeded (This doesn't seem to impact any of the commands above when I re-attempt them)

Since I knew that all of my /system/bin/ files were gone, I took them from another build and copied them over.

Ran ADB Root (worked - says adbd is already running as root), then tried ADB Shell:

- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: Permission denied (13). Tried ADB Remount (says worked).

Oddly enough, I can PUSH files into /system/bin, but I can't push them into /sdcard

However, I now can't run Flash_image because I can't get into ADB Shell

ADB shell flash_image /dev/block/mmcblk3p2 /system/boot_orig.img

I get the standard list of Help commands from ADB.

Things that may help me:

Anyone know how I can properly "Mount" the sdcard given that I can't get into adb shell?

Anyone know how I can fix Permission Denied (13)? Yes, I'm rooted, Yes I had CWM...Yes I'm stupid and wiped stuff I shouldn't have wiped. No, I can't get to Fastboot. Yes, I've read every post in the internet....all of them. I can't see anymore cause I'm blind.

I tried the NVFlash...it is installed, but can't see the wonderous Dell Streak 7. I have the Nvidea drivers installed (can see them on USB), but I see the APK driver finding the Dell streak under android phones.

I cannot get into adb shell in order to do a chmod -R 4755

I can't run adb install whatever.apk because of the permission denied (13) and the .zips don't contain the AndroidManifest.xml

I have an update.zip on my Sdcard, but I can't get it to boot into the 5 choice menu anymore (I've done this before, but doesn't work now. )

Anyone know how to unbrick my stupidity?

Are there files I can copy over from another Android phone that can trick my Dell into booting into recovery where I am capable of fixing this?

THANK YOU to anyone who has gotten far enough to fix this.

I have found the following page that suggests my only chance of fixing this is to install ubuntu... I had a Red Hat dual boot system back in the nineties, but I'd like to avoid that this year. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=671534&page=15. Is there a different terminal emulator that allows me to do things that ADB does not?